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After White Lily, Charcoal and Pastry Cookie have learned about Silent Salt’s past and his close bond with Elder Faerie, Silent Salt have appeared before them, ready to fight but before he could attack, White Lily have asked him to not attack yet, because she have something urgent to talk about with him. Silent Salt was going to ignore her words and still attack all 3 cookies but White lily have mentioned that what she want to discuss had something to do with Elder Faerie, so Silent salt, curious on how the guardian have been doing for those past eons, choose to listen to what she had to say.
- “I know that you two have been close once before corruption and i know you’re the one who sealed all the other beast. Please i beg you, let’s join forces and defeat them once more together. I can help you with your objectives just like you could do the same with me!”
- “And how does this have anything to do with Elder Faerie Cookie?”
- “Well.. this is what he probably have wanted after all.. but also i should probably tell you this now instead of later, but.. He has unfortunately passed away at the time of the tree broke and you and the rest of the beast got released. Shadow Milk Cookie was the one to defeat him, but before Elder Faerie Cookie gave his last breath, he gave me his guardian power, which makes me the new one.”
Silent Salt was shock and didn’t knew how to react from such horrific news. His closest and best friend have passed away?.. no.. his soulmate has. Him and Elder Faerie weren’t just close, they were lovers. They dreamed of a future where they could live happily together but faith has chosen an other path. But what about the fairy kingdom? What about their kids? He had only one option now, he had to go back with White Lily and help them for this war. He had to avenge his lover and crumble Shadow Milk Cookie. He also had to take care of their 3 kids and be the father he always wanted to be. Charcoal and Pastry Cookie have chosen to stay here. Pastry to find how are those catacombs related to the Saint Pastry order and Charcoal to take care of the roaming souls like he has been doing for years. Silent Salt has trusted Charcoal Cookie with the catacombs because he recognized who his ancestor is by his physique. It was this little kid from before his corruption, the one whom he helped and trusted with his secret. During the travel between the two kingdoms, White Lily has explained to Silent Salt all the things he has missed. How the kingdom have been doing, the new virtues and Dark Enchantress Cookie. Silent Salt understood pretty quickly and didn’t judge White Lily for her corruption, in contrary, he even tried to cheer her up a little and explain that this isn’t her fault and all she was trying to do is found the truth about cookies and give them freedom, so she said the same about him. After all, it would be pretty sad that he think that way about her but not himself while he was also trying to bring freedom to the cookie kind and help them all. Even this was true, Silent Salt couldn’t help but still blame himself for this.
———Time Skip———
Arrived to the Fairy kingdom, the first to see them was Mercurial Knight Cookie, whom have immediately recognized his father. He flied towards Silent Salt and instantly hugged him without thinking, but then pushed himself away. He couldn’t believe it was actually him and start wondering, in the case it was him, was he the same or did he turned bad like the other beasts? He probably shouldn’t think about that since it was his father, but the others once used to be good too. Should he take his weapon and aim it to Silent Salt? What shall he do? He stood there for a second but then, Silent Salt put his hand on Mercurial Knight’s shoulder.
- “It is a pleasure to see you once again, son. You’ve grown so much.”
- “Father.. it has been way too long since you got sealed away with those beasts in that silver tree. I’ve missed you a lot but.. the others probably have missed you the most, especially Elder Faerie and Sugarfly.”
- “Where are your siblings? I wish to see all of you.”
- “Silverbell is on guarding duty as we speaks, probably around the silver tree, but it has been eons since we last year of Sugarfly.. we’re worried about her a lots and there is no way to contact her. We don’t even know where she is! She might be-”
- “Do not worry, Mercurial Knight, I’m sure we will find her and that she is well. Let’s go find your brother, okay?”
- “Yes father.”
White Lily, who stood next to them this whole, was confused. Did Mercurial Knight called Silent Salt father? Silverbell is also his son? He has a daughter who has disappeared long ago? Who is the second parent, if there even is one? What is this family lore? She was really curious about all this but chose to ignore it and follow them. They arrived where Silverbell was but, unlike Mercurial Knight, he didn’t recognize Silent Salt as his father. He even asked why was he there since he was a beast and Mercurial Knight explained to Silverbell that this their father and, unlike the other, he wasn’t bad, which leaved Silverbell in a state of shock. Mercurial Knight have also mention that Silverbell was the youngest and still a little baby when this all happened so it was normal of him to not realize his relation to Silent Salt. He explained more and told both White Lily and Silverbell the reason why he got corrupted and that him and Elder Faerie have fallen to each others and made a family together. Silverbell was really shocked but then realized that this does explain why Elder faerie was okay with him dating Black Sapphire Cookie. In the other hand, White Lily only knew half of the story but was more shocked on the fact that Elder Faerie and Silent Salt were lovers. She felt really bad for him because of Elder Faerie’s death and thought he was really strong for bring able to content his emotions and not break down from that news. Silent Salt have proposed for them all to have tea together and a little chat to explain everything else and catch up, which they all agreed on.
———Time Skip———
After the explanation on the past, Mercurial Knight told Silent Salt what he has been up to and it was now the turn of Silverbell.
- “So i have something kinda big to tell you and want to know if you approve of it. I mean, Elder Faerie Cookie accepted this, but that’s probably since he couldn’t really judge since he is with you.. and Mercurial Knight too a long time to accept this too but i really wanna know how you feel about it.”
- “Please do tell, tho i’m sure i’ll be probably fine with it and always accepts and supports you no matter what.”
- “Thanks dad.. so i like mens and i am dating one but it’s more on the who i am dating instead of the gender part.. it’s Black Sapphire Cookie.. Shadow Milk Cookie’s assistant..”
- “Absolutely no.”
- “But he isn’t like his master! I promise you!”
- “Silverbell, he spread a rumour about my army so all cookies wouldn’t trust us to a point they hated us and would tell the enemies about our location to kill every last cookie in my army.”
- “okay so i didn’t knew about that, but he changed! I promise you he really did! I mean do you think both Mercurial Knight and Elder Faerie would let me be with him if he didn’t?”
- “Fine but i want to meet him and see by myself if he really did. If he fail then you won’t be allow to see him again, understood?”
- “Yes father! Thank you for giving him a chance!”
Right after this, some fairy guards came to those four to announce them 2 fantastic news. One were that a fairy who once used to live here have returned and the other was that, Elder Faerie Cookie have somehow woke up.